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parallel

[par-uh-lel, -luhl] / ˈpær əˌlɛl, -ləl /






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Another ominous parallel comes from the top of the internet bubble in March 2000.

From MarketWatch • May 26, 2026

Flash forward to the present, and we have a remarkable parallel: A.I. chatbots provide a convincing illusion of consciousness, but we know they are just a sequence of lifeless math calculations.

From Slate • May 25, 2026

Smacking his head on a lamppost while chasing one woman and ogling another, Damien is transported to a parallel universe in which women don’t just run the world, the nature of the sexes has flipped.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

"This technology lets us perturb hundreds to thousands of genes in parallel and then measure the detailed molecular changes in each individual cell," says Cao.

From Science Daily • May 21, 2026

The honeysuckle in the upper left-hand corner, for example, echoes the contour of the adolescent’s back, while the two straws are virtually parallel to each other.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson




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